Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.
In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.
Most people think that 'I don't recall' is a clever answer. But it isn't that clever. You might not recall that you had bacon and eggs for breakfast- but if you killed your mother, you'll remember it.
I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.